Psychological support in the formation of adherence to the treatment of patients with tuberculosis
Abstract
The objective of the study was to review the current measures of psychological support in the formation of adherence to the treatment in patients with tuberculosis. When writing the article, a descriptive method was used. The relevance of the study was due to the increasing number of patients with multiple and broad drug resistance, as well as the low level of adherence to the treatment of a large number of patients.Methods and materials. The article discussed measures of psychological support and psychological follow-up for patients diagnosed with tuberculosis in the territory of the Russian Federation and in the CIS countries. The main attention was paid to the identification of common and specific elements in the structure of adherence to the treatment, such as the personal characteristics of the patient, features of the emotional-volitional sphere, and attentive-mnestic abilities. Examples of measures taken to increase the level of adherence to the treatment of in patients with tuberculosis were given. The possibility of using information about the internal picture of the patient’s illness to correct the level of adherence to the treatment was considered.Conclusions. To date, methods of psychological support in the formation and psychological correction of the level of adherence to the treatment are not given sufficient attention, and the psychological characteristics of a patient are not taken into account when determining the level of adherence to the treatment. The internal picture of the patient’s disease is not considered as a substrate of adherence to the treatment, information about the relationship between the internal picture of the disease and adherence to the treatment is not enough to form a unified, generalized approach to the realization of diagnostic and corrective measures aimed at increasing the level of adherence to the treatment.
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